The duty to look for incidental findings in imaging research

Imaging research regularly yields incidental findings that may have personal medical or reproductive decision‐making significance to study participants. It is widely assumed that researchers have a moral obligation to disclose at least some kinds of incidental findings to research participants. Howe...

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المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Koplin, JJ, Turner, MR, Savulescu, J
التنسيق: Journal article
اللغة:English
منشور في: Wiley 2020
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الملخص:Imaging research regularly yields incidental findings that may have personal medical or reproductive decision‐making significance to study participants. It is widely assumed that researchers have a moral obligation to disclose at least some kinds of incidental findings to research participants. However, it is also a widely held view that researchers do not have a moral obligation to actively look for abnormalities irrelevant to the aims of their study. This paper challenges that assumption.